Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27325392-20160811201030

I never thought that this would be an issue on the wiki ever, but there has been some plagarism I've been seeing, taking things word for word from other wikis.

Here's an example of what I am talking about. The following is quoted from THIS wiki from the evolutionary stones page:

" An  evolutionary stone   is a stone-like item that radiates a mysterious energy that causes some species of Pokémon to evolve. Evolutionary stones may be used at any time, and cause instant evolution in the Pokémon they are used on, which cannot be canceled. All evolutionary stones are applied directly to a Pokémon and are consumed upon the Pokémon's Evolution.

Many Pokémon that result from a stone-based evolution have vastly different level-up learnsets than their pre-evolutionary forms, with several learning no moves after Evolution at all."

Now lets see an example from Bulbapedia...

"An   evolutionary stone  (Japanese:   進化の石  Evolution stone) is a stone-like   item  that radiates a mysterious energy that causes some   species of Pokémon  to   evolve<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">Evolutionary stones may be used at any time, and cause instant Evolution in the Pokémon they are used on, which cannot be canceled. All evolutionary stones are applied directly to a Pokémon and are consumed upon the Pokémon's Evolution.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">Many Pokémon that result from a stone-based evolution have vastly different level-up learnsets than their pre-evolutionary forms, with several learning no moves after Evolution at all."

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">Basically, both of them are identical. Now I have to admit, it's my mistake that I did not make not plagarizing from other wikis a rule in the guidelines, but it should come to common sense to other people that plagarizing is not ok! I honestly didn't realize that this would happen so I didn't put it in the guidelines.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.7px;font-weight:normal;line-height:19.05px;">I would like this post to serve as a reminder to not plagarize from any wikis. I have now updated the guidelines. Now this is one of the only cases I've realized so far. If you see any, please fix it. Thanks. <ac_metadata title="Plagarism" notify_everyone="1470946230"> </ac_metadata>